15 April 2008

Nokia NOT backing out of WebKit support!!

Few days ago I briefly informed you that Nokia is going to back out of WebKit support.

Apparently, it seems that I've made mistake, sorry for that but we all make mistakes and I am not excluded from this rule :(

Somehow I feel obligation towards you and as the serious journalists and blogger and I must deny myself, otherwise it will looks like I want to obfuscate the mistake which is not the case.

Early today we got respond from official S60 Browser Blog that Nokia definitely not backing out of WebKit support for the S60 browser.

They are appreciate the attention, of course, but any talk about S60 Browser backing away from Webkit isn't true!!!

We are not backing away from Webkit no matter what you might have read on one of those new-fangled "website" things -- I'll have to get somebody to show me one sometime soon.

As I understand it, one of our developers did some housekeeping on the Tiger branch of the webkit project, and some people thought it looked like we were backing away from the whole open-source project. No, no, no -- it's just that we're focusing on the newer Leopard branch, we have a lot on our plates right now (you might have heard about Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech, for example) and there's only so much we can do at once.

It's not that we don't appreciate the attention, of course, but any talk about S60 Browser backing away from Webkit isn't true.